Category: Soups, Stews, and Chowders

I’m pretty regularly playing around in my kitchen and developing new recipes. I’ve got a whole Evernote Notebook devoted to ideas–stuff to convert to gluten or dairy free or just “ooo, this might be good”. Usually I have a bit of lead time such that I’ve got a few recipes in the hopper, as it […]

As soon as cool weather hits, I start thinking soup. It’s easy, warm, and filling. I didn’t actually make this batch for us, but for some neighbors who recently had a baby (welcome Carter!). This makes a massive batch and is easily frozen, so it makes a GREAT food to take to others. Ingredients: 5 […]

I decided to make an effort to start incorporating a few meals a week that are not carb heavy. This is a challenge for my meat and potatoes self. I have a hard time thinking of meals that don’t include pasta, rice, potatoes, or a bread, so I turned to Kalyn’s Kitchen, where I always […]

I rarely make my own chili from scratch. This might be considered shameful by some foodies, but frankly, I really just love the Carroll Shelby mix from the grocery store. But I decided that I just had to try making chili with BACON because bacon makes everything better. This wound up being kind of a […]

This is not my mama’s chicken n’ dumplins. Hers is made with Bisquick dumplins and no matter how many times I try, I can’t seem to make it the same. And of course now with the gluten thing, hubby couldn’t eat it anyway. Since I have been sick and am responsible for making my own […]

I’ve been on vacation and am only just now caught up with everything enough to get back to blogging about what we’ve been eating. Hubs is getting a cold or sinus infection or something, so soup was the name of the game. Except of course we’re a gluten free household, so it’s chicken and rice […]

Black-eyed peas are just not one of my favorite things. I’m a Mississippi girl so I prefer purple hull peas. But black-eyed peas are the thing for New Year’s fare, so I had to do something with them. A few years ago at a New Year’s party I had some black-eyed pea chili. I have […]

Fall is in the air. I can’t tell you how happy that makes me. Autumn is my favorite time of year because it’s time to bust out the crock pot for flavorful soups and stews. Beef barley is one of hubby’s faves, so it seemed like the thing to kick off the season. This is […]

I’d never heard of using corn cobs to make stock before, but a coworker from corn country told me her grandmother did this religiously–even ears that you’d actually EATEN off of (it gets boiled! she said). So I decided to try it for corn chowder. The results were surprising. And me being me, I had […]

Chicken soup. Classic comfort food. It’s the thing I always want when I’m sick. But here’s the thing. When you’re the wife or the mom or the primary food preparer in the house…there’s nobody to make YOU chicken noodle soup. And you know…Campbell’s just really doesn’t do it. So here’s a quick and dirty recipe […]